INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES, ETC., OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STATES: EMBRACING A VIEW OF THEIR COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, Together with HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL SKETCHES OF THE DIFFERENT STATES AND CITIES OF THE UNION-STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS, COMPARED WITH OTHER LEADING POWERS-THE RESULTS OF THE DIFFERENT CENSUS RETURNS SINCE 1790, AND RETURNS OF THE CENSUS OF 1850, ON POPULATION, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INDUSTRY, ETC., WITH AN APPENDIX. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. BY J. D. B. DE BOW, PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, ETC., IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA. PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE OF DE BOW'S REVIEW, MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, NEW-ORLEANS; 79 JOHN STREET, NEW-YORK; AND EAST BAY AND BROAD STREETS, CHARLESTON .... 1852. The paper on the Early History of Mississippi, page 21, is from the pen of the Hon. J. M. Chilton; that on Maryland, by R. G. Barnwell, Esq.; on Missouri and North Carolina, by Prof. Duncan; on the Mexican Republic, Hon. Joel R. Poinsett; Mexican Mines, Brantz Mayer; Manufacturing Industry, 101, Senator James, of R. I.; NewYork, T. P. Kettell; Negro Slavery, Chancellor Harper and Hon. J. H. Hammond; Negro Laws of the South, Hon. J. B. O'Neal; Negro Diseases, Dr. Cartwright; Negro Life Insurance, Dr. J. C. Nott; Pennsylvania, A. W. Ely, M. D.; Rice, R. W. Allston, of S. C., &c. (FOR GENERAL INDEX SEE END OF VOLUME III.) MISSISSIPPI RIVER-Its Sources, Mouth and Valley; the Balize, Etc.... 46 64 44 BASIN.. The Great Importance of Improving it, Etc..... MISSISSIPPI-Early History of the State... A Sketch of the General Character, Soil, Climate, Productions, Emigration, Pros- MARYLAND-Historical Events, Government, Resources, Improvements, Commerce, City of MAINE-Its Early History, Physical Aspect, Agricultural and Mineral Resources, Commerce, MEXICO-Products of Sugar, Cotton, Rice and Indigo... MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY-Theory of Manufactures, their Progress, Origin and Growth of Influence of, on the Growth of Cities..... Progress of Cotton Manufactures in the U. S... 64 64 Extension of Cotton and Wool Factories at the South. Relative Cost of Steam and Water Power... MANUFACTURE of Shoes at the South.... MANUFACTURES OF GREAT BRITAIN-Their Progress in Cotton, Wool, Flax and Linen, Silk, NEW ORLEANS... PAGE 1 10 17 20 21 41 45 45 53 56 67 76 78 79 80 80 81 82 83 85 92 99 101 107 121 123 124 128 130 131 135 139 141 142 143 144 144 Importance nejug her Foreign Commerce-Her Banking Capital... Improvements, Population, Resources, Commerce, NORTH CAROLINA-Coloniartuary nd Subsequent History, Physical Condition, Pro- NORTH CAROLINA-Its Resoues, Manufactures, NEGRO MANIA-The Negro and other Races of Men.... "SLAVERY-Memoir on, by Chancellor Harper, prepared for, and read before the Socie- 154 163 164 164 182 183 185 185 187 194 195 197 205 NEGRO SLAVERY AT THE SOUTH-(Gov. Hammond's Letter to Clarkson,) Introduction; the 66 LAWS OF THE SOUTH..... 46 Population of the South, with reference to Life Insurance.. SLAVERY-Decline of Northern and Growth of Southern.. NEGROES-Diseases and Peculiarities of, by Dr. Cartwright. Management of, upon Southern Estates.. [Page 238 265 269 292 303 308 310 313 315 329 330 333 336 337 338 339 339 342 343 345 347 348 350 363 365 374 375 377 385 392 411 414 419 423 424 426 427 429 43 457 458 471-474 478 478 OLIVES-Cultivation of the Olive in the Southern States. POST-OFFICE-History of, in all Countries, Operations and Statistics of in the U. S., from the Communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Progress of America, RAIL-ROAD TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN-Address of the Memphis Convention to the People of APPENDIX.-Chicago, 556-Cincinnati, 556-Cotton Statistics, 556-Commerce and Marine of the |